When I toured Government House in Sydney a couple of months ago, I was struck by how the guide made no reference to a fine portrait of the Queen which takes pride of place in the hall, and instead dwelt on a likeness of William Bligh, the former governor of New South Wales who is still most commonly associated with his eventful captaincy of HMS Bounty.  This sort of republicanism has no place on these shores, but, even so, it never seemed to occur to anyone to hang an image of the monarch at 3 Whitehall Place, the home of the Department of Energy and Climate Change, during Labour's period in office.  Happily, Greg Barker and Chris Huhne have rectified this. They have acquired a photograph of the Queen by Dorothy Wilding from the Government art Collection and it now hangs in the reception area. Barker tells me: "When I realised there was no picture of the Queen, I was determined to get one - we are Her Majesty's Government, after all."